Jean Renoir’s The Diary of a Chambermaid

The Diary of a Chambermaid 
Paulette Godard plays the ambitious servant whose arrival into an eccentric household of decadent French aristocrats eventually wreaks havoc. Breaking away from the leisurely documentary style found in Jean Renoir’s previous U.S. film, The Southerner (1945), The Diary of a Chambermaid has a theatrically stylized continental flair. The film’s subversive bitterness and subtle melodramatic nature illustrate the director’s brilliant interweaving of the working and elite classes. 1946, US, 35mm, b&w, 87 min. Director: Jean Renoir. Screenwriter: Burgess Meredith.  With: Paulette Goddard, Burgess Meredith, Hurd Hatfield.  
 
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